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Janine Warner's best-selling books and videos on web design have won her an international following and earned her speaking and consulting engagements around the world. Since 1996, she's written more than a dozen books about the Internet, including Web Sites For Dummies (DIY), Dreamweaver For Dummies (every edition), and her latest, Mobile Web Design For Dummies. She's also a regular contributor to Layers Magazine.

Janine is the host of more than 50 hours of Web design training videos on Adobe Dreamweaver and CSS. She has worked on large and small Web site projects, and she is the creator of the Web design training site DigitalFamily.com.

Posts byJanine Warner

All the hype about HTML5 and CSS3 has Web designers chomping at the keyboard to make the Web more beautiful. With all of the warnings that these cool new features may not be ready for prime time, what should you do today? Here are a few of my favorite new CSS3 techniques that work well enough to put them to use right away.

One of the most dramatic improvements to Dreamweaver CS5 is the ability edit WordPress themes, but before you can get WordPress (or Joomla! or Drupal) to work, you’ll need to set up your computer as a Web server.

Dreamweaver CS5 includes a new collection of CSS layouts you can customize to create webpage designs. These layouts are designed to work well in a variety of Web browsers, and they can help you avoid common problems with CSS. This tutorial shows you how to edit these layouts to make them your own.

Here’s how to use some of the coolest new features, from troubleshooting CSS with the new inspect option, to adding advanced Ajax and jQuery features using the widget browser, to testing your pages in different Web browsers using the Adobe BrowserLab website.

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Launched in 2005, Layers Magazine is one of the web’s premiere destinations for photographers, filmmakers, designers, and other artists who are interested in how new creative tools and techniques are being used in the industry today. Layers Magazine is published by KelbyOne — the online educational community for Photoshop, Lightroom, and Photography. To learn more, visit KelbyOne.com.